☕️ Letting Go of Geometry (Again)
How type design made me see all the “fixed” logos on social media in a new, dimmer light.
Interface Café
Design theory to strengthen your practice.
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Breaking Silos (and Metaphors): Adrian Secord, ‘Roving Engineer,’ Google
The complexities of large-scale design systems and how designers and engineers can find common ground.
Unpacking “Craft” in the Software Interface
The more I see craft mentioned as a power of design, the more I feel that a working definition is urgently needed.
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☕️ Letting Go of Geometry (Again)
How type design made me see all the “fixed” logos on social media in a new, dimmer light.
Breaking Silos (and Metaphors): Adrian Secord, ‘Roving Engineer,’ Google
The complexities of large-scale design systems and how designers and engineers can find common ground.
Essays
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The Family Reunion
There’s something to be said for the preservation of interaction, ideas, and execution.
Tips
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📚 Read This: “How humans became microplastic” on UnHerd
Plastic promised a world in which our inventive capabilities would be unbound and infinite. It’s easy to hear an echo (or a warning voice) of those proclamations today.
Unpacking “Craft” in the Software Interface
The more I see craft mentioned as a power of design, the more I feel that a working definition is urgently needed.
Code, Creativity, Performance: Will Larche, Engineering Manager, Google
Engineering as the "study of making choices."
Fab Components: Bethany Fong, Design Director
How the heady early days of Material unfolded.
☕️ Doubleshot • Staying Creative with Design Systems
Staying creative with a design system means knowing when and how to break it.
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📚 Read This: “Neural networks & the architectural imagination” on Recessed Spaces
A piece of architectural criticism focused on the role of generative AI in the imagination of architecture and the ways that the technology elides questions about whose work went into the image.
Practice
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Debunking the Ketchup Bottle Once and for All 🍅
Okay. I don’t need to open this post with the ketchup bottle meme. It’s a picture that everyone’
Theory
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✨ AI-generated Screens and Matters of Taste ✨
Figma has added the sparkle emoji to our design tools. What does it really mean?
☕️ Doubleshot • The Sparkle Emojis are Here
The phrase “make designs,” I would argue, does not describe what occurs when the button is pressed.